• Forbes doesn't give a thickness of these beds. He uses a different numbering system with the units at this locality than ones he uses at other localities (numbers vs. letters), for this locality he doesn't even give bed thicknesses, making them difficult to correlate. He does begin the sequence at this locality with the "Black Band" with which he ended the series of Hempstead series.

• This unit has belts of shells in greenish marls. The Bembridge Marls at this locality are concretionary marls and clays.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Forbes. 1856. On the Tertiary fluvio-marine formation of the Isle of Wight. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, and of the Museum of Practical Geology 1-162 [J. Alroy/E. Leckey/E. Leckey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 40913: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Erin Leckey on 02.07.2004